Chapter 10
Avro
My phone buzzed in my pocket and for a split second a flicker of hope pricked right in my chest but it is impossible–it cannot be Eleanor returning my call.
I used a private number so it’s even impossible to trace who it is. When I looked at the screen of my phone again, I accepted Carlos call.
“Hey“”
“How’s it going“” he responded.
“Great.” I muttered. “Very great.”
“Hmm.” Carlos sounded surprised by my answer. “How great when you couldn’t get us a deal with any of the companies?”
I scoffed. “Let’s talk about this when I get back.”
“Fine; but I’m just calling to remind you of how much problem we have at hand. Some of our clients have also heard the rumor and they want a
“Rumor
“You didn’t get my text?” He asked again and I puffed out air
“I’ve been away for just two days I blurted like he lost count.
“And there’s been a couple of reports about how we’re going penniless because we do not have what it takes to keep the firm going”
“What?” I scoffed. “That is weightless?
There’s been a lot of these since I started run in the firm and there’s been no single issue that I have not been able to handle. It took a while for me to catch up on what Carlos was saying but I adjusted the earpods on my ears and followed
also, it would have been but uh–the reporters seem to have a good case. They have information and if you ask me, they also have the ability to
ruin this for us
“So, our clients want a statement. Nobody wants their case handled by some firm making it to the headlines for unpleasant ne
“Right.” There was absolutely no other word I had for this moment.
“What do we do?” Carlos asked and my scowl deepened.
“What do you mean what should we do! Shouldn’t you be handling this?”
“Well I’m doing what I can but it’s not doing much, really, I just think they-
“Tell them we’re working around the clock to ascertain if there’s any basis to these claims”.
“Okay, but uh- it’s too late to just say that to them.”
Too late.
If I had go
gone through my phone yesterday then maybe I could have been able to give him this piece of advice earlier but I wasn’t anywhere
“They need you to give them the assurance yourself. The remarks
The allegation is quite serious; all thanks to losing the last case, he chirped without any more
I
“You and I both know it isn’t any serious. That report was watertight
“Yeah. I know. The most important thing is to make sure our clients don’t lose confidence.”
“Agreed.” I added.
Carlos took a deep breath and I could tell he was exhausted by who wouldn’t bet
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In the meantime, Carlos- I have to go
The call ended in a few seconds and I showed the phone back into my pocket as Brad took a U–turn leading to the airport.
I feel bad that I le Carlos to handle the firm in a moment like this but I’m also trying to get these other agencies to work with LIS.
“Is everything okay?” Brad asked from the driver’s seat. I raised my face to meet his eyes in the mirror and shrugged. “Nothing I can’t handle
While that may be true- I’ve also had a fair share of things that I couldn’t handle.
Even though I tried so hard to not go to the damn address, I did but ended up in a bar close by.
I just couldn’t talk myself out of it. There was a sensation in my chest each time I thought about her and fuck it. I couldn’t help it at
I lowered my head back to the iPad in my hands and I checked a few emails on the way to the airport.
I responded to a couple, but I couldn’t concentrate. I kept asking myself what it would take to get Eleanor to admit to feeling something.
Anything at all, pain, sadness, or even anger. I hate the way I can’t tell what’s going on in her head and that alone was messing with me.
For the first time in my life, the last thing on my mind is the firm and the only thing on my mind is Eleanor.
My need to see her again flared in me like a new spur and I clenched my jour, looking out through the window.
wither mesmerizing eyes, soft, tanned skin, long selie legs with
How can I get Eleanor our of my mand so easilyt I remember everything as I saw it —
| fim, curvaceous ass, nisl lush, rounded hips.
I can’t explain how she got a toned body— maybe through surgery? Or gyning?
“Damn it,” I mattered through my teeth anill stopped scrolling through the mail,
“Sure you can handle it? Brad asked in response to my last question with zero idea of what was going on in my head.
mean- I can definitely stop you over for a cup of coffee if you need that to get through the day”
“And mass my flight! I’ll pass
T’s scheduled for departure in thirty minutes. Sounds like enough time to get you a remedy for the sighs and hisses”
You know a better remedy?” I questioned. “Some silence. Damn it Brad, I have an hue at work and I need to think”
He didn’t say anything else and I took it that he seas serving me the remedy already, only that it was beginning to feel like he ignored my last question and I hate d.
Thore when people do not acknowledge and that is one of the things cating me up. How can Eleanor just stand and act like she has never met me
“Here we go,” Brad’s voice came up after a couple of minutes. “Ready to go home and handle whatever it is you got going on.”
As great as that sounded, I knew I wasn’t going to handle sha, and the real handling would happen when I’m able to see Eleanor again.
So, when will that bei
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